Kevin Press

  • This week’s favourites: Bienoise – This Meaning Today (Mille Plateaux) Loris Cericola – Metaphysical Graffiti (Artetetra) Otto Lindholm – FortyTwo (Totalism) Andrew Tasselmyer – Songs For Nonexistent Films (Somewherecold Records) WeFreeStrings – Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage (ESP Disk) Plus one from the archives: Goldmund – Occasus (Western Vinyl)

  • Online retailer Bandcamp, purchased earlier this year by Epic Games, has announced its third annual Juneteenth fundraiser. Its share of sales earned on Jun. 17 will go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “This annual fundraiser is part of our larger, ongoing commitment to racial equity, and we’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our…

  • By adding Kate Bush’s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” to the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, the show’s producers have introduced the British avant-pop legend to a new generation of admirers. “How utterly brilliant,” writes Bush on her website. “It’s hard to take in the speed at which this has all been happening…

  • Max Cooper and Donato Sansone have produced a new video for the “Solace In Structure” track, from Cooper’s latest Unspoken Words. “I was trying to express feelings and ideas outside of language,” writes Cooper in an email. “This chapter uses many layers of sounds, constrained to a precise rhythmic grid.” Sansone collaborated with Marco Holland…

  • Contemporary music from around the world.